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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A national referendum on the matter is scheduled; talk shows debate the issue, and Casey Kasem even hosts a "Just say no" TV fund raiser. Meanwhile, the President's sole black adviser (Robert Guillaume) overcomes his don't-rock-the-boat philosophy to rally opposition to the trade. Yet he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Extraterrestrial Segregationists | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

The statistics promise that kidnapped children are a hundred times more likely to be taken by friends, loved ones, parents, than by strangers. And yet, as the search for Michael and Alex Smith continued, it required too complex a calculation to suspend pity and suspect a plot. Even when wormy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death and Deceit | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

Kaye says that there is a big impact on the number of guilty pleas with DNA profiling. Also, Bloom says, "Eyewitnesses are not accurate. Eyewitnesses have testified that a given individual was the criminal and DNA tests have proven that individual could not have been the perpetrator."

Author: By Kris J. Thiessen, | Title: Fingering Statistics On O.J.'s DNA | 10/25/1994 | See Source »

For much of the week, the U.S. had been spreading the same ideas, plastering pleas for reconciliation and democracy on billboards, flags and wall posters. But the people still needed to hear the message directly from Aristide. "This is a day on which the sun of democracy rises, never to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Deliverance | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

But PBS' new production of The Mother, originally seen on the Philco Television Playhouse in 1954, is something of a revelation. By today's lights, it seems rather dated, obvious and slight. The plot is minimal: despite her children's pleas, a 66-year-old widow insists on looking for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Golden, But No Glitter PBS Takes a Fresh Look At | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

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